Category Archives: Courses

What is Big Data? Big data is term that you often hear when people talk about data science and analytics. So, the question is, “what is big data?” Doug Laney from Gartner, a leading information technology research company, defined 3 dimensions of “big data”: volume, velocity, and variety. Volume denotes the size and scale of… Read More »

Why are open source statistical programming languages the best? Because they R. It is August and Fall 2016 classes begin in just a couple of days. I am currently prepping for two large classes: I happy to see the incredible interest in my graduate course with over 50 students enrolled in ISE/DSA 5103 Intelligent Data Analytics! I… Read More »

Welcome back to all the Data Science and Analytics and the ISE students for the Spring semester. Hope the holiday break was enjoyable! And I hope you are ready to get back to it — the Advanced Analytics course (ISE 5113) starts on January 19, 2016. Class is from 12-1:15p on Tuesdays and Thursdays with… Read More »

The analytics lab at the University of Oklahoma is actively pursuing research in various aspects of data science and analytics, with particular interest in enhancing "community resilience" to natural hazards and disruptive events through analysis of complex interdependent networks, predictive modeling, and optimal allocation of resources for both mitigation and recovery.

Dr. Charles Nicholson, an Assistant Professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, is the Analytics Lab director. The lab team members and active collaborators include Masters and PhD students in Data Science and Analytics, Industrial and Systems Engineering, and Civil Engineering.